1.3 Major and trace minerals – Their sources, physiological functions and
deficiency symptoms. Toxic minerals. Mineral interactions. Role of fat-soluble
and water – soluble vitamins in the body, their sources and deficiency
symptoms.

1.6 Advances in ruminant nutrition.Nutrient requirements. Balanced rations.
Feeding of calves, pregnant, work animals and breeding bulls. Strategies for feeding
milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle. Effect of feeding on
milk composition. Feeding of goats for meat and milk production. Feeding of sheep
for meat and wool production.

2.8Physiology of Milk Production,Reproduction and Digestion- Current status of
hormonal control of mammary

development, milk secretion and milk ejection, Male and Female reproductive
organs, their components and functions.Digestive organs and their functions.

2.9 Environmental Physiology-Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms
of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in
animal behaviour, climatology– various parameters and their importance. Animal
ecology. Physiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health and production.

4.1 Commercial Dairy Farming- Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced
countries. Dairying under mixed farming and as specialized farming,economic dairy farming. Starting
of a dairy farm, Capital and land requirement, organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities
in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Herd
recording, budgeting, cost of milk production, pricing policy; Personnel Management.
Developing Practical and Economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of greens
throughout the year, feed and fodder requirements of Dairy Farm. Feeding
regimes for young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding animals; new trends in
feeding young and adult stock; Feeding records.

4.2

Commercial meat, egg and wool production-Development of practical and economic
rations for sheep, goats, pigs,rabbits and poultry. Supply of greens, fodder,feeding
regimes for young and mature stock. New trends in enhancing production and
management. Capital and land requirements and socio-economic concept.

4.3

Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural calamities

5.2 Breeding Systems- Breeds of livest-sock and Poultry. Heritability,
repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their methods of
estimation and precision of estimates; Aids to selection and their relative
merits; Individual, pedigree,family and within family selection;Progeny testing;
Methods of selection;Construction of selection indices and their uses;
Comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods; Indirect
selection and correlated response; Inbreeding, out breeding, upgrading,
cross-breeding and synthesis of breeds; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial
production; Selection for general and specific combining ability; Breeding for
threshold characters. Sire index.

6. Extension:

Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension.
Different Methods adopted to educate farmers under rural conditions. Generation
of technology, its transfer and feedback. Problems and constraints in transfer
of technology. Animal husbandry programmes for rural development.

Anatomy of Fowl- Musculo-skeletal system-functional anatomy in relation to respiration
and flying, digestion and egg production.

1.5 Pharmacology and therapeutic drugs- Cellular level of pharmacodynamics
and pharmacokinetics. Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance. Drugs
acting on Autonomic nervous system. Modern concepts of anaesthesia and
dissociative anaesthetics. Autacoids. Antimicrobials and principles of
chemotherapy in microbial infections. Use of hormones in therapeutics- chemotherapy
of parasitic infections. Drug and economic concerns in the Edible tissues of animals- chemotherapy of Neoplastic diseases. Toxicity
due to insecticides, plants, metals, non-metals, zootoxins and mycotoxins.

1.6 Veterinary Hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation -
Assessment of pollution of water, air and soil- Importance of climate in animal
health- effect of environment on animal function and performance-relationship
between industrialization and animal agriculture- animal housing requirements
for specific categories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows and sows,
milking cows, broiler birdsstress, strain and productivity in relation to
animal habitation.

5.3 By- products- Slaughter house byproducts and their utilization- Edible
and inedible by products- Social and economic implications of proper
utilization of slaughter house by-products- Organ products for food and
pharmaceuticals.

5.5 Rabbit/Fur Animal farming – Rabbitmeat production. Disposal and
utilization of fur and wool and recycling of waste by products. Grading of
wool.

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